This is one time where survivorship bias is not a flaw. If someone who got elected says it costs this much, then it probably did. We don't hear from all the people who spent less, *because they failed to get elected*!

Personally I think at least part of government should be drawn by lot (a la jury service), as elections really devolve to a spending contest, despite being at least theoretically democratic.

In the UK we have had majority governments formed from one of two parties for decades. At the last election (and almost certainly at the upcoming one) we had for the first time a coalition government where one of the main 2 parties had to team up with a minority party in order to form a government. This is a big improvement as by being forced to compromise with the minority party, the larger party has had to same some of its more extreme instincts.

There is no reason it couldn't also happen in the USA. However if you convince yourself that it can never happen (and worse convince others that this is the case), then maybe it won't.

Instead of mindless cynicism, don't resign to it, and don't joke about it. Campaign to stop it.

I hope Ubisoft are going to contact each of those players and give them a refund directly. Ubisoft's beef is with the seller not with the player.

Every new altcoin should be regarded as a pre-mined pump and dump scam until proven otherwise.

The great strength of bitcoin is its network effect.

Every new coin has to demonstrate how they will gather sufficient network effect to make themselves useful, the equivalent of overtaking facebook, google or amazon. It could certainly be done but think how many years it is since facebook overtook myspace! It doesnt happen very often.

The key thing here is that they're not just blocking inside the hotel, they're blocking outside the hotel as well as radio is a broadcast medium.

Its utterly antisocial of them to do this as it will affect other properties near their hotel and they should be completely ashamed of themselves, along with the hucksters that sold them that shite.

I can't believe there is still no comeback when companies interfere with other people's legitimate shit

Why is FLAC playback so battery-intensive? Is it because its not implemented in hardware while the mp3 playback is?

The fundamental issue here is that copyright is too powerful. Electronic goods should be a single global market, so the fact that copyright holders are able to use the powers granted by copyrights to slice the market shows that copyright law grants too much.

This is another example of how settlements can work against the public interest of justice. This blatant lying may influence other court cases differently to an open judgement.

I think all terms of settlements should be public, for the sake of justice.

I expect the EU to sooner or later begin enforcing it under the data protection legislation.

About 40x as many people know the name of the film now than if they hadn't dramatically pulled it.